Tree in Malayalam

A tree is മരം (maram), two syllables, ma-ram, and it is the word a child learns first. The same noun also means wood or timber, so a wooden door and the tree it came from share a name. Everyday Kerala speech uses nothing else.

Most common translation

മരം (maram)

Tree. A tree; the same word also means wood or timber.

മുറ്റത്ത് ഒരു വലിയ മരം ഉണ്ട്.

muttathu oru valiya maram undu.

There is a big tree in the yard.

All Malayalam words for “tree”

വൃക്ഷം (vriksham) is the Sanskritic equivalent and belongs to poetry, botany and signage; അഗം (agam) and വല്ലഭം (vallabham) list tree among many old meanings and no one would use them for the thing in a garden.

Common questions

How do you say tree in Malayalam?

Tree is മരം (maram).

Does maram also mean wood?

It does. മരം (maram) covers the living tree and the timber cut from it, and the sense is settled by what you say around it.